"Connie and Ted’s might be in the middle of Santa Monica Blvd., but it lets you pretend that you’re the kind of person who spends the summers in Bar Harbor (that’s a fancy term for Maine). It’s a neighborhood-y spot with a big menu of East Coast seafood classics, and it attracts a crowd that’s more interested in having a beer and a bunch of clams than anything else. The beer list includes stuff from excellent-but-tiny LA County breweries, but seeing as Craftsman’s O’Stout is filtered through oyster shells, you should probably just order that." - brant cox, brett keating
Jakob Layman